hurryskurry

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by hurryskurry 7y ago
I would say, to be pedantic, that your pay isn't set by the market "really," because of market distortions of all kinds. Like doctors are highly paid for a number of reasons one of which is cause the APA restricts the number
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by hurryskurry 7y ago
Can you provide actual sources to support the claim that a very small number of people are responsible for output?
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by hurryskurry 7y ago
How is the right to privacy being violated though? Imagine you were a stripper or porn actress, your right to privacy wouldn't preclude someone recognizing you at the strip club or video. Or suppose you went to the strip club or watche
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by hurryskurry 7y ago
If the videos are published, and the social media profiles public, how can it be illegal to match the two? Supposedly if they show their face they already accept the danger of being recognized, unless the video was published illegally. That
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by hurryskurry 7y ago
The average debt is substantial if you consider over 30k substantial. Professional students obviously will have substantially more. But most professional school loans are private and not federal as there is a cap. Also I believe your argume
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by hurryskurry 7y ago
The flatness might be going on 40 years now. People were saying 30 years like 10 years ago.
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by hurryskurry 7y ago
The interesting part is the historical contingency of the distribution, that is based not just on rational economic principles but purposeful policy. For example, you would need to explain why up from post-war until the mid-70s you see incr
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by hurryskurry 7y ago
Which is ironic since the US has been becoming increasingly less "free." Like state elections, the ways congressional districts are gerrymandered, and the enormous outsized voice capital has in the functioning of our government an
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by hurryskurry 7y ago
Is natural gas used to cool houses in Europe? I thought natural gas was mostly used for heating. In the UK at least many house lack air conditioning. I can't speak about the continent.
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by hurryskurry 7y ago
Freedom gas, the new American euphemism for flatulence
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by hurryskurry 7y ago
Still ridiculous. To me we should be above all that.
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by hurryskurry 7y ago
Not to mention that there is a reproducibility crisis in psychology and social science, and delivering the message without nuance makes it even more irresponsible.
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by hurryskurry 7y ago
Imo the problem with the article, and perhaps if it is a faithful representation of the original idea of orientalism, is that it is incoherent. >As Said argued, Orientalism’s failure was “a human as much as an intellectual one; for in ha
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by hurryskurry 7y ago
I agree that physicians wages may be part of it. The AMA keeps a tight control on how many physicians are produced to keep fees high, but physician incomes haven't really been increasing. Doctors, I believe, generally make less now adj
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by hurryskurry 7y ago
Medicare rate and the reality of using Medicare are separate issues though For me the issue is that if you had something like a hernia it would essentially cost less to fly to Europe, have the surgery, and stay a couple of weeks than to pay
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by hurryskurry 7y ago
>my eyes just rolled Right? To me it just seems unlikely that a respected journalist would do this, but I may just be speaking out of ignorance.
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by hurryskurry 7y ago
But the amount of hours worked are probably insane. I wouldn't be surprised if she was in her lab 12 hours a day for her whole post-doc or something like that. Many people are intelligent enough, but are not going to work hard enough.
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by hurryskurry 7y ago
She obviously deserves some credit, and you can see she got some for her hard work and skills, i.e., she already has a tenure track position set up at Caltech. But rarely do post-docs actually get credit. The credit they get is usually by P
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by hurryskurry 7y ago
In more equal societies women tend to choose STEM less though
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by hurryskurry 7y ago
Except in most of STEM there are already an equal number of women. As soon as the baby boomers retire itll be obvious. Women get more PhDs than men, and have been for a while.
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by hurryskurry 7y ago
In much of STEM women are basically at parity. With computer science, and engineering being obvious exceptions. Further there is a study which has shown that in countries with greater gender equality women choose STEM occupations less. Over
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by hurryskurry 7y ago
Seems like it would harm job growth, because labor costs would increase for low wage jobs. Also what about income from investment?
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by hurryskurry 8y ago
I didn't read this article because of a payway but I read the NYT article on it, and they covered that. Knowing the Post I can only assume they did too and you didn't read it either?
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by hurryskurry 8y ago
I've always felt this. College is the wrong place for most people. College is for nerds who want to learn and do research, and things like that. It isn't for someone who just wants to get a "real" job, nor it is really n
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by hurryskurry 8y ago
Actually, not forming a belief in something, i.e., not positing the existence of an entity without evidence is a sound practice. And that is actually exactly what we do in science. E.g., Russell's teapot
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by hurryskurry 8y ago
Not forming a belief when you dont have evidence for the existence of something? Sounds like good metaphysics to me.
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by hurryskurry 8y ago
I never had someone recommend a major to me, or recommend I take on loans. Law school tuition is insane, I can only imagine if you paid for your room and board and tuition with loans and that was only 10% of the aid offered you must have be
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by hurryskurry 8y ago
I actually think the problem isn't unrealistic major choices, but the fact that college shouldn't cost so much in the first place. There is really no reason college has to be as expensive as it is. It isn't like college profe
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by hurryskurry 8y ago
I think we're over looking the fact that it shouldn't cost 100k for a liberal arts degree. You literally read books, one of the oldest technologies and write papers getting on. You have professors, but your tuition isn't real
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by hurryskurry 8y ago
The traditional college degree should be geared towards academia imo. You don't need a college degree for most jobs really. You can learn almost anything on the job. And as someone also with two bachelors pursuing a PhD I agree that mo

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